GOP centrists call on Schumer to delay infrastructure vote

[left-of-center2012]

Senate Republican centrists are calling on Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) to postpone a key vote on a bipartisan infrastructure package until Monday to give negotiators more time to reach a deal. Schumer has scheduled a procedural vote on a motion to begin debate on the infrastructure package for Wednesday and Republicans say he will not have the 60 votes needed to proceed.

“My hope is that Sen. Schumer will agree to postpone the vote. We’re making significant progress,” said Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine).

"We just had, a subgroup of us, had a meeting. We met very late last night with the group of 10 and I would hope that Sen. Schumer would recognize the good-faith effort that we’re making, that this is extraordinarily complex and that we’re working as hard as we can,” she added.

Collins declined to say whether she would vote yes or no on the motion to begin debate ...
(Isn't she always 'undecided'?)

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/563904-gop-centrists-call-on-schumer-to-delay-infrastructure-vote

[C_U_L8R]

1. Enough putzing around.

Get onboard or get out of the way.

[jalan48]

2. The only thing our "Centrists" can seem to agree upon are bloated Defense budgets.

[Celerity]

14. and pruning back banking regulation

Democrats fail to mend split over rolling back Dodd-Frank financial regulations

https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-dodd-frank-democrats-20180306-story.html

A short time later, four moderate Democrats sat down with reporters to explain their decision to co-sponsor what they described as sensible revisions to the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.

“This a pretty carefully crafted bill … where Wall Street does not get the benefits, where it really is focused on small and midsized banks, and I think it’s the right direction to move at this moment in time,” said Sen. John Tester (D-Mont.).

Then they and their colleagues all hustled to the Senate floor to cast a key procedural vote on the legislation, which, if enacted, would be the most significant rollback of bank regulations since the 2008 financial crisis.

The bill advanced 67-32, likely clearing the way for the Senate to pass the bill this week or next, which would move it on to the House.

All Republicans supported the bill. They were joined by 16 Democrats and one independent, Angus King of Maine, who usually votes with the party.

The rest of the Democratic caucus, including California Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Kamala Harris, voted against moving the bill forward.

“I’m not for monkeying with Dodd-Frank,” Feinstein said after the vote, recalling how close the financial system came to collapse in 2008. “I think people who weren’t here maybe underestimate how close we came to a real meltdown.”

[jalan48]

15. Yep. Wall Street and other powerful interests influence how politicians vote, on both sides of the

aisle. We live in a corporate state, not a 'Mr Smith goes to Washington' world.

[Budi]

3. Umm..there are NO GOP Centrists.

None.

That's a snide headline ya think?

[Sneederbunk]

4. +1

[lagomorph777]

6. Yeah, what is a GQP "centrist?"

Never heard of that before.

[Budi]

9. Word Association by design, for impact. 🙄

'They're All The Saaaaame!! Don't cha know?"

[Stinky The Clown]

5. And so it goes. This is the first round of the GOPee pulling all support.

[lagomorph777]

7. And we're still talking to them - why?

[SheltieLover]

8. "Progress" to qpukes screwing the people

[NewHendoLib]

10. oh no, not the Queen of Qoncern, Qollins!

[2naSalit]

11. The ansewer is an immediate "NO".

Fuck them, it's another delay tactic, just say no.

[The Magistrate]

12. No Just 'No!' But 'Hell No!', Sir

Cards on the table.

These shit-heels need to stand by their word and vote as they promised, or stand up and say "I'm a lying sack of shit who makes Beelzebub look like an honest man...'.

[crickets]

13. Same old story.

Drag out the talks, losing ground with compromise after compromise, and they will still vote no. Stop this.